KDE on the NBC Show "Heroes"

Vesuv writes "The pilot episode of NBC's flagship drama for the 2006 fall season proudly features a laptop showing a KDE desktop and KDE applications such as Kopete and KMix running on Mandriva Linux. " The show itself looks to have potential for essentially an x-men knockoff. I mean, it ain't written by Sorkin (all hail jesus) so I'll give it a few more episodes to decide if all the angst is gonna kill me or not.

Comments

Re:Another X-Men Ripoff?

[falcon5768]

Well to its credit, Mutant X was produced by Mavel and was sorta a X-Men without having to use the X-Men since those where a Movie franchise.

This looks more to be along the lines of DC superhero's.

Re:Important point to note:

[chrismcdirty]

The hot chick definitely had my attention while she was on the screen. But soon after, all camera focus was on the desktop.

Re:seems logical,

[99BottlesOfBeerInMyF]

they need to have the right to use it without worrying about being sued because it's proprietry and they like to not have to give thousands of dollars and coppies of the script over to people so the whole show doesn't get pulled for creating a negative image of software. The only thing that amazes me is that more people aren't doing this

I think you've got this a bit backwards. Apple often gives free laptops to television shows and movies to be used on screen as advertising. More likely the thought was either "this looks cool" or "Microsoft said they wouldn't pay us to include a screenshot of Windows." Possibly the thought was, "after this episode how much do you think MS will pay us to stop showing cool people using Linux? How much will they pay to stop us mentioning it is Linux in the script?"

Re:KDE

[Xanthis]

They probably would have to pay Microsoft for product placement

Actually, in product placement the company that has the product featured on the show either pay or the use is negotiated. Its basically embedded advertising that it pretty much 30 second skip proof.

Its AVAILABLE ONLINE

[in2mind]

Dude the show is available online @ NBC's site.
You can even download it if you have the intel processor they require.

Check this NBC page http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/

Re:The show is totally unrealistic

[TubeSteak]

Allow me to be the first to say:
This thread is worthless without pictures

http://www.eikehein.com.nyud.net:8090/kde/heroes/k de-on-heroes3-hd.png
http://www.eikehein.com.nyud.net:8090/kde/heroes/k de-on-heroes6-hd.png

Now that i've provided pics of KDE, you provide pics of your wife ;o)

Yes it is

[Anonymous Coward]

Heroes on iTunes. $1.99 an episode. It was actually available prior to being on TV.

Re:Sadly not iTunes

[shark72]

"I would have gladly paid to watch - but it's not on iTunes. Oh well, off to the TorrentMobile, batman! Another idiotic network failing to grasp they could make money by letting me watch the show when I want."

It is the #4 download on iTunes as of Thursday morning. It is also front and center on the "TV Shows" page, presently directly above the free episode of Battlestar Galactica. Shows generally appear on iTunes the day after they air.

24 and Alias

[antdude]

Examples of shows I watched: 24 with Pine v4.44 and Alias with an old version of KDE.

Re:Xmen

[elrous0]

the premise is that the superpowers are the result of Human evolution, which is the basic premise of the X-Men

It's also the premise of the 70's TV series "The Tommorrow People" as well as hundreds of other science fiction stories, novels, movies, and TV shows (many of which LONG pre-date the X-men's use of the idea).

-Eric

kde on "Criminal Minds" last night as well..

[nixil]

Kde was the desktop used on the computer in the chat room company last night as well (the one about the Child being Auctioned off - P911)

Re:Making a logic board

[elton247]

I did it once to my laptop. Even documented it just in case it helps someone else: http://brainbasement.eltonwilson.com/computer/dell -laptop-shuts-down-when-case-is-pressed/